MLB.com's Carrie Muskat has been covering Major League Baseball since 1981 and is the author of "Banks to Sandberg to Grace: Five Decades of Love and Frustration with the Cubs." You can follow her on Twitter @CarrieMuskat. Here, she blogs about the Cubs.

3/31 Barney to start at 2B

Rookie second baseman Darwin Barney will start Friday for the Cubs in the season opener against the Pirates. Mike Quade announced the lineup before Thursday’s workout at Wrigley Field. Barney will be the first rookie to start Opening Day for the Cubs since Kosuke Fukudome did in 2008.

Barney, who hit a two-run homer in Wednesday’s intrasquad game in Mesa, Ariz., batted .340 in 21 games this spring. Jeff Baker, who hit .360 in 19 Cactus League games, will get the start at second base on Saturday against Pirates left Paul Maholm. Blake DeWitt, the Cubs’ other option at second base, struggled this spring, batting .186 in 21 games.

— Carrie Muskat

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Dear Carrie,
Ever since the cubs.com website was re-done within the last week its been a pain in the you know what to find your blog. Can you potentially ask the webmaster or whoever deals with that to maybe get a link back to the blogs from the homepage.

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